By Determiners, Possessives

Hi Anonymous,I think Stefan gave the most precise argument to support the pronoun calling: it replaces I's, and if you forget the 's, it replaces a pronoun, which is similar to a noun...This explanation is a bit tricky, but it is sensible.On the other hand, my is obviously an adjective (or...

Hi Anonymous,I think Stefan gave the most precise argument to support the pronoun calling: it replaces I's, and if you forget the 's, it replaces a pronoun, which is similar to a noun...This explanation is a bit tricky, but it is sensible.On the other hand, my is obviously an adjective (or...

Hi My father's friend. There is the possessive 's inflection with the possessor: father. We can not put another deteterminer between the determiner (my) and the inflected noun (father's) to express we are referring to, say, two of them. However, 'My father's two friends' is acceptable,...

'My' is a possessive determiner, such as a, the, this, that, either, neither, any, one, what, which, whose, etc. In the following, 'my' could be replaced by some of the above determiners as follows: Where is my/the/that/which/whose book? I doubt anyone would argue that the words that can...

my, her, our . . . possessive adjective (or determiner) mine, hers, ours . . . possessive pronoun http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/possessive-adjective.html

That's a question. Before any native speakers' responses, I'd like to list out what I've checked out in some dictionaries: American heritage: adj & interj Cambridge Advanced Learner's: determiner & exclamation (old exclamation) Oxford English Dict.: 1、pron.:The possessive genitive of I...

Hi, Please tell me what the marked/underlined "a" is modifying? School I thought that when you have something in the possessive form, the determiner is not needed. The genitive is used here to describe a 'characteristic' of the school. Compare 'a lion's footprint'. I am going to a boys'...

Hi, Please tell me what the marked/underlined "a" is modifying? I thought that when you have something in the possessive form, the determiner is not needed. I am going to a boys' school.

Inchoateknowledge wrote: A photo gallery of John Smith's In (determiner+noun+of +possessive) structure I use 's except when talking about human relationships.Hi,I thought that in this case of was used insted of 's. IMHO the correct sentence is for example A photo gallery of John Smith's...

Dominik wrote:Which is correct: Photo gallery of John Smith or John Smith's photo gallery?Thanks in advance! A photo gallery of John Smith's In (determiner+noun+of +possessive) structure I use 's except when talking about human relationships.